Guides
Guides to the Code. Free to read, and to keep.
Long guides on the questions accomplished people bring to the second half of life. Each is traced to its sources with an honest read of the evidence, ends in one practice you can start this week, and comes as a PDF you can keep.
I · Find your center, and return to it
Every later choice depends on this one: what stays available to you under pressure, and how quickly it comes back.
How to Center Yourself: The Practice Behind Composure
Centering starts in the body. A sixty-second practice from the martial arts, what the research supports, and the measure that matters most: how quickly you come back.
II · Own what is yours
What came from you is yours, the repair included. What came to you from others can be understood and left with them.
Who Am I Without My Work? Identity After Success
When a role has carried your identity for decades, an exit or a plateau exposes the question. What the research on leaving roles shows, and a 30-day practice for answering it by choice.
The Unlived Life: What Jung Meant, and Where It Shows Up at Midlife
What Jung actually wrote about the unlived life, the famous quote he never wrote, what regret research shows, and a 30-day practice for the paths you set aside.
The Golden Shadow: The Strengths You Disowned
Jung held that the shadow holds good qualities, too. Where the golden shadow comes from, why admiration and envy point to it, and a month-long practice for reclaiming one strength.
III · Choose what deserves your life
What your remaining years, money, attention and standing are for, chosen on the record.
Why You Feel Empty After Success
A reached goal can leave you flat. What the arrival fallacy is, which successes leave people emptiest, when to see a professional, and what the flatness is asking of you.
The Second Half of Life: What Jung Understood About Midlife
Jung held that the afternoon of life needs a different program from the morning. Why that turn is hardest when the first half went well, and how to begin it this week.
Where interior change reaches behavior, and behavior reaches the people it touches.
The Knowing-Doing Gap: What It Takes to Become What You Already Know
You already know the thing you are not doing. Why accomplished people stall between insight and action, what the evidence says closes the gap, and a practice to start this week.
All four precepts
Reading for the whole of the Code.
Books for the Second Half of Life: A Reading List by Precept
Twenty books for the second half of life, sorted by the four precepts, with what each one is for, who should read it, and where it falls short.